Joel Dyar

June 18, 2021

Recent big local wins in clean energy!

In recent Clarion issues, we’ve discussed some of the groundbreaking state policy wins happening right here in Colorado for the clean energy economy. This month, we’re […]
April 2, 2021

Lightning-fast progress in clean energy

There’s no understating the lightning-fast progress that clean energy policy, jobs, and opportunity have made in Colorado these past three years. Though the pandemic has shaken […]
December 4, 2020

Clean energy: The shift is happening

Lazard Ltd. is the world’s largest independent investment bank. When it speaks, markets and policymakers listen. First formed in 1848, the bank today commands the heights […]
December 2, 2020

A Historic New Chapter for Rural Colorado Energy

In 2019, Western Colorado Alliance members passed state legislation that, for the first time ever, required Tri-State Generation & Transmission to answer to the people of […]
August 27, 2020

Tri-State and new green legislation

On June 1, Tri-State filed its first Phase 1 documents for the historic Electric Resource Plan underway at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In 2019, both […]
August 17, 2020
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Big upcoming clean energy events

In days of such uncertainty, America’s accelerating transition towards a cleaner and more local energy future is one of our greatest sources of hope and good […]
May 11, 2020

Historic energy rulemakings heading our way

While our society grapples with this historic crisis and its aftermath, there are many decisions about our future that still need making. Colorado is poised to […]
February 17, 2020

A new chapter for homegrown prosperity

America was built on coal. Colorado too. Coal provided the cheap, abundant fuel that powered our country’s industrialization, peaking at nearly 900,000 mining jobs in 1923 […]
February 17, 2020

“We were looking at a future of skiing on rocks.”

In a time of national climate dereliction, Patrick Church is a radical optimist. A New Hampshire native turned Crested Butte high country adventurer, Patrick’s first winter […]